Flickr Favorites : Traditional Costume 't Gooi, The Netherlands

Today in the Flickr Favourites it's the turn of the traditional costume of 't Gooi in The Netherlands. The area is also called Gooiland, and lies in the southeast of the province of Noord-Holland. Its traditional costume is often described together with that of Eemland, the neighbouring area in the northeast of the province of Utrecht, because of their similarities. The most remarkable part of the costume is the lace cap; there are two types, the round one and the square one. Both look very much like the cap from Volendam, but with smaller wings. The wings are pinned onto the cap in the squared type, giving it a squared appearance. The costume itself is a dark stiff version of a late 19th century fashion.

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1. People of The Netherlands , about half a century ago ..., 2. Optocht, 3. P1030672, 4. 14 september 2010, Laren


And two picture postcards from my own collection.

Flickr Favourites: Traditional Costume of Schokland, Holland

Today in the Flickr Favourites it's the turn of the traditional costume of Schokland in The Netherlands. Schokland was an island in the former Dutch Zuiderzee. As a result from the increasing sea-level Schokland transformed from an attractive settlement area in the Middle Ages to a place under continuous threat by floods in the 19th century. By that time the Schoklanders had retreated to the three most elevated parts, Emmeloord, Molenbuurt, and Middelbuurt. A major flood in 1825 brought massive destruction, and in 1859 the government decided to end permanent settlement on Schokland. The population of Schokland was moved to Kampen on the mainland. Schokland lost its status as an island when the Noordoostpolder was reclaimed from the sea in 1942. The remains are still visible as a slightly elevated part in the polder and by the still partly intact retaining wall of the waterfront of Middelbuurt.
Just as other islands in the Zuider Zee, Schokland had its own distinctive costume. The original Schokland costume very much resembled that of the island of Marken. A characteristic feature was the cylindrical bonnet with loose chin ribbons and the colorful outer garments. In the course of time changes appeared, likely influenced by the proximity of the island of Urk. By the end of the 18th century a costume with an ear ornament usually made of precious metal (locally called ‘oorijzer’, lit. ‘ear-iron’) and a starched white bonnet were quite popular with the women on Schokland. The female attire going with it, was mainly dark blue or black in color and made a less pretentious impression. A necklace of red coral beads indicated the wearer’s wealth and standing. Many of the elders held on to the traditional costume, so that both variants persisted over time. After the evacuation the population spread over the mainland surrounding the Zuider Zee, the traditional costume became obsolete and it was lost at the beginning of the last century. There is a choir existing of offspring from the former island who sing in costume.

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1. WL-090506-033, 2. bloedkoralen, 3. Schokkerkoor op Schokland, 4. www.flickr.com/photos/jackvandongen/4990415866/in/gallery...

And two picture postcards from my own collection.

Flickr Favourites: Traditional Costume of Hindeloopen, Holland

Today in the Flickr Favourites it's the turn of the traditional costume of Hindeloopen in Friesland in The Netherlands; it's an old city in the north at Lake IJsselmeer. In 1368 the city became part of the Hanseatic-league. Ships of Hindeloopen made journeys to the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts. The strong overseas connections with foreign countries were probably the reason for the development of an own Hindeloopen language; a mixture of Frisian, English, Danish, and Norwegian. The ship-trade brought Hindeloopen great prosperity, especially in the 17th and 18th century. Lots of money were spent in Amsterdam on precious fabrics and objects, which were supplied through the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The rich town developed in those days her own costume and interior design style with colorful painted walls and furniture. The costume was very richly decorated and knew many variations; so you could easily see whether a woman was married or not, or if she was in mourning or not. They used dyed cotton from India and woolen and linen materials from Holland. The long or short coat was made of chintz with a flower-pattern and the apron and the headdress were made of a woven check pattern.

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1. Fries Museum Hindelooper dracht, 2. Hindelopen klompjes, 3. Chintz Baby Boy Hat - original, 4. IMG_6993

And two picture postcards from my own collection.

My Flickr Favourites: My fashion

Today in the Flickr Favourites we play by theme: a fashionable mosaic. I would like to show you what clothes I would love to wear with the according accessories. I choose for this gorgeous dress from Alexander McQueen, which can also be flattering for a more full woman. Then a beautiful green kimono jacket on top of it with green fingerless gloves and a bag with buttons ! Love it !!

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1. Alexander McQueen McQ FW10 lookbook 07, 2. Karen, 3. Pillow Case Bag, 4. split pea soup green hand warmers

And a brooch and a hat from my own collection on Etsy fitting very well with the above outfit:

Flickr Favourites: Traditional Costume of Huizen, Holland

Today in the Flickr Favourites it's the turn of the traditional costume of Huizen in The Netherlands. Huizen is a town in the province of North Holland. The name "Huizen" is Dutch for "houses" and this has been linked to the belief that the first stone houses in the region appeared here. Huizen originally was a coastal village along the Zuiderzee, with a thriving fishing industry. After the damming of the Zuiderzee by the Afsluitdijk in 1932, the old sea was changed into the freshwater lake IJsselmeer, and economical activities shifted towards industry and commerce. There are still some elderly women wearing the old traditional costume. They wear large white caps with curved sides. The rest of the costume is relatively sombre which is a contrast to most of the other traditional costumes of Holland. The whole appearance of the black dress with the large white cap is very elegant and impressive.

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1. facebook, 2. Only the old wear traditional costume, 3. People of The Netherlands , about half a century ago ..., 4. Klederdracht uit Huizen Noord Holland

And two picture postcards from my own collection.

Flickr Favourites: Traditional Costume of Urk, Holland

Today in the Flickr Favourites it's the turn of the traditional costume of Urk in The Netherlands. Urk is a town in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Urk was in the past an island in the Zuiderzee. In 1939, a dike from the mainland to Urk ended the town's island status, just as the Afsluitdijk project was changing the salt water Zuiderzee surrounding Urk to the less saline IJsselmeer. Later in the 20th century, sea-bed areas surrounding Urk were reclaimed from the sea and became the Noordoostpolder. Urk is still a fishing village and religious life has also traditionally been very important to Urk's inhabitants. The kraplap (i.e. bodice) is in Urk made of beautiful coloured silk with embroidered flowers on the front (called the "hartje" or "small heart"). The silver head iron that holds the lace cap with yolk coloured trim, is the oldest type in The Netherlands. The striped apron is the same as the one in Volendam.

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1. Urkerdag 2010, 2. Urkerdag 2009, 3. Urkerdag 2010, 4. People of The Netherlands , about half a century ago

And two picture postcards from my own collection.

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

After the Marken costume, today it's the turn of the traditional costume of Volendam in The Netherlands. Volendam is only 5 kilometers (3 miles) away from Marken, but the costumes are very different. The costume in Volendam is not as old as the one in Marken, they never valued old garment pieces as they did in Marken, and buy rather new pieces when the old is not nice anymore. A big difference in mentality, also maintained by a different religion (catholic versus protestant). A cute detail is that the underskirt in Marken is the outerskirt in Volendam; the Marken people consider the Volendam people to walk around in their underwear. The Volendam costume is very spectacular with its colours and lace winged cap; it's also seen by many foreigners as the Dutch national costume, which it is not of course.

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1. Volendammerdag, 2. in traditional dutch costume, 3. IMG_3791, 4. 11-00-1948_05484 Textielindustrie in Volendam

And two picture postcards from my own collection.

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

This week's Flickr Favourites are following the theme on ArtMind's blog: a collection of dreams.

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1. A dream postman, 2. Dream - Brass Button Ring, 3. I have a dreams, 4. Pieces of Dreams (the first)

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

Coming weeks my flickr favorites will frequently be of traditional costumes, which is my great (collection) passion. I'll start with the oldest remaining traditional costume of The Netherlands: Marken in Holland. Lots of details of this costume date back to the Middle Ages.

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1. marken, 2. Klederdracht Detail, 3. Marker klederdracht / Traditional Dutch costume, 4. [Native girls, Marken Island, Holland] (LOC)

And two pictures from my own collection. The first picture shows a chintz girl's cap from Marken. The second one shows a postcard depicting a girl from Marken from around 1910. Personally, I think the Marken costume is the most prettiest one of all Dutch costumes.

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

I feel very unmotivated this week :(

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1. Miserably Unmotivated, 2. Another Nap, 3. Maybe I need to update my web page., 4. 09150008

Being totally unmotivated to do something useful or creative I started to play a bit on the web and found the graph you see in the third picture. It's a graph of a website (HTML DOM Visualizer). The next graph shows the structure of this blogpost and if you don't know what to do, you can make your own.

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

Lots of storm here this week !

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1. Brewing Storm, 2. Storm Clouds Gathering - vintage button collage, 3. Storm Birds, 4. A stormcloud

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

This week's Flickr favourites we play by theme: how your dream home would look like. Well, I am not a very style-conscious person; I love modern, but not too clean; I love cozy, but not too much; I love colors, but prefer sometimes neutrals, etc. In any case it must be comfy and a bit quirky ! Hope my mosaic tells that story :)

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1. Patterned 3d flower wall art decoration, 2. Blue cushion, 3. Shane Powers, 4. Sweet and Lowdown knitted chair

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

This week's Flickr favourites are a bit airy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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1. Debate, 2. Hung Parliament, 3. Apophysis-101209-108a_TheHilt, 4. Untitled

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

We are traveling to Berlin on Thursday because hubby must hold a presentation on a conference and we need new passports from the Dutch Embassy in Berlin. I was looking around the internet what I could do when hubby has his talk and found out it is Fahion Week in Berlin. And then I suddenly saw the announcement of the show of De Leon by Ricardo Ramos with pictures of models in what looked like the traditional costume of Staphorst in The Netherlands. And that is true; it was Staphorst. He called it "Reconstructing Klederdracht"; klederdracht is the Dutch word for traditional costume. He says: "A small town called Staphorst in The Netherlands catched the designer’s attention this time, its female inhabitants are still wearing the same fashion for almost a couple of centuries! Something very unique in Europe where fashion has been a strong statemant of contemporary life and social change especially from last century.Their “Ready to Wear” hand made traditional garments (Klederdracht) have been transformed following the traditional methods used to construct them, creating a collection between austerity and fantasy flirting with folk." Sadly the show is on Wednesday night and only on invitation :((( So, I will not be able to see it. What I would give or do to be there !!!!

So, this week's Flickr favourites are about Staphorst and its klederdracht !

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1. Staphorst, 2. Dagelijks-05, 3. Staphorster jasbeschermer gehaakt, 4. Klederdracht

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

Came across the term "knit graffiti" last week; sublime idea !!

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1. Yarnbombing in Yellow Springs, 2. Knit the City - Phonebox Cosy, 3. Knit Graffiti Launceston TAS, 4. crossing

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

Because of my new line of wood button jewelry, I am intrigued by wood at the moment !

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1. burnt wood-face, 2. there are monsters in the wood, 3. Untitled, 4. godrevy log 1

Tidbits : Icy

This was a very icy Xmas here in Germany, and it's still very very cold ....

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1. IJSKOUD // ICY-COLD, 2. Iceland In Kinghorn, 3. PICT0072, 4. Icy Rain

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

The best of Xmas in Germany is................ Lebkuchen !!!

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1. Lebkuchen - Panpepato tedesco, 2. Lebkuchen - Gingerbread, 3. Grand-Marnier-Lebkuchen, 4. Lebkuchen

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

My father turns 86 today !!! Happy Birthday Papa.

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1. radon 86, 2. México ´86 (PEPELOTAS), 3. NYC - UES: 86th Street Subway Station, 4. 86%

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

I am definitely going green this Xmas .....

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1. have a minimalist christmas #2, 2. I couldn't wait anymore..., 3. green christmas tree, 4. Green xmas light Bokeh